Jeff Pigott and Julia Warin – both long-time Arts Together artists, volunteers, trustees, supporters – have been running their own art election campaign in the run up to May 7th polling day. You can follow their progress at the following blog: http://electionart2015.blogspot.co.uk/ You can also access the delights of Election Art on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/art_election […]
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That’s our very own Jane (Corsham volunteer) posing with John Bishop and Pans People – remember them – at Dermot O’Leary’s Danceathon on Red Nose Day.
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Get Creative is a major celebration of the nation’s arts, culture and creativity led by BBC ARTS and What Next? The campaign aims to highlight the central role that creativity plays in people’s lives, to celebrate the millions of people who are already doing something creative and encourage others to take part. Everyone is invited […]
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“It’s great to feel that your presence is important to someone because you aren’t important to anyone else” Group member M asked to join Arts Together as she was desperately lonely and bored. She told me that she and her husband had moved here some years ago shortly after which he became seriously ill and […]
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The Arts Together fish are back and making a guest appearance at ‘Turning the Tide’ in Weston Super Mare on 19th March on the request of the South West Foundation. This is a networking event for those involved in providing funding advice and development, with a seaside theme.
Read MoreWe recently held one of our training and skill sharing days for Arts Together artists and volunteers. It was a great turnout with over 30 participants and for some an opportunity to meet up for the first time. These are important opportunities to get together, learn from one another and to re-engage with the charities […]
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The Marlborough Group have been drawing and painting pictures of animals – initially with charcoal, then black and white acrylic paint. Today various colour drawing materials including chalk pastels, oil pastels and coloured pencils have added additional challenges for them. In the next two weeks they venture into coloured acrylic paint on canvases. Sarah
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On Thursday I was the stand-in volunteer at the Pewsey group. There were some lovely moments; like when all the 4 men started singing, or having a chat with D, and seeing them all really getting to grips with the paint colour mixing – and loving it! Juliet
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On February 19th Joanna Dewfall was on the Sue Davies afternoon show on BBC Wiltshire Radio talking about the mosaic sessions at the Marlborough group. Listen here Interview with Marlborough Group (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, ‘script’, […]
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